Courtney Cazden, United States, classroom discourse, language learning in multilingual context and literacy pedagogy
http://www.wou.edu/~girodm/library/cazden.pdf

Bill Cope, Australia, cultural diversity in schools, literacy pedagogy and the changing cultures and discourses from workplaces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cope_(academic)

Norman Fairclough, Great Britain, language and social meaning, social and cultural change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Fairclough

James Gee, United States, language and the mind, learning demands of the new fast capitalist workplaces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Paul_Gee

Mary Kalantzis, Australia, experimental social projects and literacy education, citizenship education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kalantzis

Gunther Kress, Great Britain, language and learning, semiotics, visual literacy, and multimodal literacies
http://books.google.com/books?id=9bvM3Z1GEWkC&dq=inauthor:Gunther+inauthor:Kress&lr=&num=50&as_brr=0&output=html&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

Allan Luke, Australia, theorist of critical literacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Luke

Carmen Luke, Australia, feminist pedagogy
http://books.google.com/books/about/Globalization_and_women_in_academia.html?id=9k8rU6qCwMkC

Sarah Michaels, United States, classroom learning in urban settings
http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?id=15

Martin Nakata, Australia, literacy in indigenous communities
http://www.jcu.edu.au/curriculumrefresh/group/JCUPRD_055649.html